EXAMINATION OF FICTIONAL PLACES ON THE MYTHOLOGY-SPACE AXIS: GODS OF EGYPT MOVIE ANALYSIS

Abstract

Cinema and architecture are in a mutual relationship. Through space, cinema reaches a backdrop to tell its story, its narrative power becomes stronger, it completes the gaps in its story and describes its characters. In architecture, it produces new forms physically and digitally, nourished by cinema. There is a similar bond between mythology and space as there is between cinema and space. Places enable the concretization of mythological stories, while mythology creates new spaces, shapes existing spaces and positions them in a hierarchical order.  When the sociopolitical structure of mythology is evaluated, the place also has certain duties in ensuring social order and positioning the ruler and the clergy. Fictional spaces are places that cannot be physically experienced in the current period. In this context, the places of mythology are fictional places. Ancient Egyptian architecture is one of the cornerstones of world architecture in terms of form, shape and aesthetics. It has a unique style with its architectural structures such as pyramids, sphinxes, temples, obelisks, stylization of plants belonging to the flora of the region, artistic objects such as wall paintings, decorative decorations made with hieroglyphs, and sculptures in mythical forms. The movie ‘‘Gods of Egypt’’, which covers both Egyptian mythology, which guides a rich cultural accumulation, and Egyptian architecture, which left its mark on the world's architectural history, was chosen as an example for this study. The Gods of Egypt movie, released in 2016, is a production that takes its story from Egyptian mythology and interprets Egyptian architecture. The purpose of this research is to try to explain the mythology-space relationship by examining the film's locations on the character level and mythology axis. The main outcome of the research is the necessity and desire to create such productions for Turkish mythology and to depict traditional Turkish architecture, characters and places of Turkish mythology.